The elections in Belarus extended the government of President Lukashenko

• Belarus rejected the weekend and the EU as Persian, authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was organized in power over thirty years.
• The 2020 Belarusian elections, which were also called the opposition, caused unprecedented protests in the country.
• Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and relying on the subsidies and political support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he helped him survive the protests of the 2020.

Belarus Autoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko The government has extended its power for more than thirty years in the elections, which rejected the opposition and the European Union as Persian.

The Central Election Commission announced that Lukashenko won 87% of the election in Monday morning, after a campaign of four opponents praised his authority.

As a result of Lukashenko’s ruthless repressions of opposition opinions and freedom of speech, members of the country’s political opposition called the elections in 2020 and the last election, which was held in 2020 and revealed months of protests, was unprecedented in history. A country with a population of 9 million.

The Secretary of State Rubio Belarus raised the freedom of the US prisoner in the nation’s elections

Since then, more than 65,000 people were arrested and thousands were beaten, and the pressure was censing from the West and brought sanctions.

The EU rejected the voting on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened with new sanctions.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbok said elections do not offer voters a choice, and this is “a bitter day for all those who longs for democracy.”

The head of the Central Commission of the Republic of Belarus, the fifth Igor Karpenko and his colleagues, on January 27, 2025, attend the press conference on the results of the presidential elections in the capital of Belarus. (AP Photo / Pavel Bednyakov)

“Instead of free and fair elections, fearless life, they face daily pressure, repression and human rights violations,” he wrote in X.

Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and manages the country with an iron fist. He rains subsidies and political support Russian President Vladimir PutinHe was in office for a quarterfi-century, and this attitude helped him to survive his 2020 protests.

Lukashenko allowed Moscow to use the country to occupy Ukraine in 2022 and then hosted some Russian tactical weapons.

Putin called Lukashenko on Monday and congratulated him on the occasion of the “convincing victory.” Chinese President Si Cinpin also sent congratulatory congratulations.

Some observers believe that Lukashenko was afraid of the repetition of these mass demonstrations in the background of economic difficulties and the background of Ukraine, and for January, rather than in January, instead of holding the voting in August.

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The leading opponents have ran abroad or thrown into prison. The activists say there are about 1,300 political prisoners, including the Nobel Peace Prize in the country, founder of the Viasna Human Rights Center Ales Bialiatatsky.

Lukashenko has been pardoning more than 250 people since July. At the same time, the authorities tried to remove the opposition from arresting hundreds of more people during raids targeting relatives and friends of political prisoners.

Opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Fleeing from Belarus After the challenging of the government in 2020, under the pressure of the government, the elections were condemned as “illogical Persians” and the voters called on the voting bulletin to line.